Chapter Two-Hundred-Three
Not long after Sean had fallen asleep Trevor could hear the sirens to fire trucks and police cars hurrying to stop the fire that they had created during their fight. What were the chances of them coming and seeing if they had heard anything funny? They’re the closest neighbors to the house. That can’t happen. Trevor lay there for a couple of hours letting Sean sleep as he thought of what they should do. They have to get far away from the place that’s for sure. But where? After thinking about it for awhile, he decided he couldn’t let Sean sleep much longer in fear that they’re going to have visitors soon. He nudged him gently and he moaned incoherently.
“What?”
“Sean wake up. We have to get out of here.”
“What??” Sean started to sit up but the sharp pain in his bullet wound made him groan and lay back down.
“There are police and firemen ten minutes away checking out the fire that we just created. I’m afraid they might come here to see if we heard anything.”
“What are we going to do?”
“You are going to lie here and continue to be my patient while I hurry and pack everything that we will need.”
“Then why’d you wake me if you’re just going to make me lay here?” Sean pouted.
“Because I need you to be awake so that you can help me get you downstairs.”
“Aren’t doctors supposed to have stretchers?”
“Well, this doctor didn’t have time to steal any before he was arrested, I’m sorry to disappoint you.” Sean pouted even more and Trevor chuckled and bent down and placed a kiss on his forehead.
“Who would’ve thought you would turn into such a whiney patient the moment you were injured.”
“Be nice to me, I hurt.” Trevor rolled his eyes and he got up and he began to hurriedly pack clothes. When he finished with his own he went to Sean’s room and hurriedly packed his clothes for him, and then he went downstairs and got food, their weapons, and their laptop, and all of their Valuables. When he had everything that they would need he went back upstairs to his room and found Sean lying there, his eyes partly closed. Trevor took pity and went over and gently scooped him up in his arms cradling him and he carried him out of the room. Sean whimpered into Trevor’s shoulder and Trevor shook his head.
“You know this wouldn’t have happened to you if you would have just listened to me,” he informed. “This is what drug addiction does – it nearly gets yourself killed. I hope a lesson was learned out of this.”
“I will never take a drug again…there are you satisfied?”
“Only the good ones that I give you to make your stupid ass feel better.” Trevor insisted as he took him outside. He opened the back door and lay him on the seat again.
“Oh shut up, you like my stupid ass,” Sean insisted with sly grin. Trevor threw his blanket and pillow at him and he shut the door behind him and walked away and Sean noticed him trying to hide the blush. He smirked and settled himself back against the seats with his blanket and pillow and Trevor returned shortly with all of there things that he piled into the passenger’s seat and the trunk.
“Where are we going?” he questioned as Trevor got into the driver’s seat and shut the door.
“Down memory lane,” Trevor answered softly as he started the car and drove off.
“My memory lane or your memory lane?” Sean asked skeptically.
“Mine. Unless you want to see if your old trailer is still there after all these years.”
“Yours will do…”
“We don’t have much of a choice.” Sean reached up to the front seat wanting Trevor’s hand. Trevor kept one hand on the wheel and took Sean’s in the other and Sean squeezed it gently.
“Is that a caring gesture from my ruthless killer?” Trevor asked with a raised eyebrow. Sean narrowed his eyes.
“I care about you.”
“Well it’s good to know there’s still a heart in there somewhere,” Trevor teased lightly.
“You’re the only one who gets to know. So shhh.”
“You really love me like you say you do?” Trevor double-checked. He was under the impression that his best friend’s father and mother had destroyed him so much he was incapable of loving another human being.
“More then I say I do. I’ve loved you all a long…I just didn’t know it up until recently.”
“How recently?”
“The motel…when we were stuck alone. It was excruciatingly painful.”
“More painful then being shot?” Trevor asked in slight amusement. Sean winced at the reminder of the hole in his waist.
“About the same.”
“So…you really do love me then?”
“Yes.”
“Enough to do anything for me?”
“You saved my life Trevor, I’m yours.” Trevor grew very silent, contemplating on if he really means that or not. Sean turned his head slightly to look at him through the rearview mirror with questioning eyes.
“Why?” Trevor shook his head.
“Just wondering,” he answered vaguely.
“Trevor?”
“Get some sleep or I’ll be forced to give you medicine that makes you drowsy.”
“You never let me keep secrets from you.”
“Mine aren’t bound to be reckless.” Sean scowled at him. “Get some sleep. Now.” Sean let go of his hand stubbornly and he lay there staring up at the ceiling, downright refusing to obey his orders. He never has before, why should he now? Hole in his waist or not. The ride lasted ten minutes more. When they reached their destination, they were parked in front of Trevor’s childhood home that was left to him after his father died. His father of a car crash, and his mother while giving birth to him. This house was surrounded by a bunch of trees, giving them the protection that they so desperately need and he had always loved having a lake house. He thought it would be perfect for just him and his best friend to hide at. Trevor turned the car off and he got out and opened the door to the back seat and he carefully helped Sean out while rolling his eyes some.
“I love how you listen to me.” Sean winced as Trevor moved him and he allowed him to act as a crutch as he helped him into the house. When they were inside Trevor looked down at him.
“Can you handle some stairs?”
“No please not that.” Trevor chuckled amusedly and he guided him toward the back porch. Once they were out there he helped him down a couple of steps and over to the dock of the lake. Sean looked curious.
“Are you really that sick of me that you’re going to toss me in the lake and leave me there to suffer?”
“If I were going to get sick of you, it would have happened a long time ago,” Trevor reassured. When he reached the end of the dock he helped him sit down.
“Lie back,” he ordered gently. Sean did as told and Trevor settled himself next to him.
“This here is the only memory I want to remember right now. Us lying here as kids looking at cloud shapes go by.” Sean smirked.
“One of the rare things we did when you weren’t constantly saving my ass.” Trevor rolled his eyes some as he grabbed Sean’s hand and laced their fingers together and they lay there quietly, both men suddenly lost in their own thoughts. After a long while Sean looked over at him and saw his eyes watery. This surprised him. He never thought he’d ever see Trevor cry.
“What’s the matter?”
“Nothing,” Trevor shook his head.
“It’s obviously something.” Trevor fell silent.
“Trev, please…”
“I’m sick of this…” he finally blurted out.
“Sick of what?”
“Always having to save your ass.”
“I never asked you to, you know. You just do…” Sean insisted, feeling hurt by Trevor’s abrupt confession.
“You told me you would do anything for me, remember?”
“Yes…if you want me to save you instead to make up for all the times you’ve saved me I am ready and willing.”
“I would prefer it if neither of us had to save anyone,” Trevor insisted and he rolled onto his side facing Sean, resting his head in his hand.
“Well it’s not something we can control…we’re the bad guys, we tend to throw ourselves into danger.”
“Why do we have to be bad guys?”
“That’s just who we’re…” Sean shrugged.
“No, that’s who you are.”
“You’ve done some pretty horrible things yourself, I don’t think you can deny your title of being the bad guy anymore.”
“Well maybe I’m sick of it. Sean, I almost lost you today does that not have any effect on you at all?”
“Of course it does…but we’re already in too deep, they’re after us. Our faces are all over the place I don’t see any way out.”
“I do…” Trevor insisted softly as he idly drew circles on Sean’s chest with his finger. “One favor that’s all I am asking of you. Turn your back on all of this…go into hiding with me. Just the two of us…we could be so happy together…just living in our own world…we could move and change our name and identity…I could get a job as a doctor again and take care of you. We could start a whole new life together.”
“That’s what you really want?”
“It’s all I’ve ever wanted. I’ve gone this far because of you…I will always go where you go, I will always do what you do, and I will always be there to catch you when you fall. That’s all it’s ever really been about for me. Sure, I was angry and bitter and enjoying it in the beginning right after my dad died but I don’t want to do it anymore…not when I almost lost you. I can only save you so many times…what if the next time I don’t succeed?”
“I love you…and that life sounds so perfect…but I can’t turn my back on it just yet. It would be a total waste if I did. I need to finish Kori and Ashley off first…then we’ll move away and go into hiding…please Trevor, cant you hang on for a little longer?” Sean asked softly as he wrapped his arms around Trevor’s waist and pulled him so he is lying on top of him. Trevor made sure to avoid hurting him.
“What if we don’t survive this?” Trevor asked softly. “What if they catch us and we have to spend our life in jail? I hated that place Sean, I don’t want to go back there.”
“We won’t get caught.”
“You can’t guarantee that. Baby I love you but I have to be honest here…you’re reckless. You can’t control your temper, you act on impulses…it’s suicidal.”
“I can control my temper if I work really hard at it…there have been a few times where you’ve been able to talk me out of my anger…you’re good at it.”
“I certainly couldn’t stop you this morning…”
“They used my weakness against me. You know I hate it when people tell me I’m a coward, you know it.” Trevor sighed heavily.
“What about your weakness for drugs? That nearly got you killed too.”
“I told you I would stop.”
“Can you really do that?”
“I have the best drug right here,” Sean insisted as he delicately took Trevor’s face into his hands. “If I have you here I can conquer anything. You’re my better half.” Trevor stared at him for a few moments just thinking about it.
“When you start craving drugs I have permission to tell you know and house arrest you?”
“Don’t you do that whether I’m okay with it or not?” Trevor looked at him unamused.
“Okay…yes…you do. Do whatever it takes…”
“If we continue this…and I’m not saying we’re…you have to let me think about it for awhile. If we continue this…it will have to be me who calls all the shots. You can throw in your opinions but if I don’t like them you have to listen to me. I become incharge and you back me up. Because you can’t handle it.” Sean saluted him.
“As you wish master.” Trevor shook his head.
“Very funny.”
“I thought so too,” Sean insisted and he pulled his face in closer to him before brushing his lips lightly over his. When they pulled apart, Trevor brought his lips down to Sean’s chest placing kisses on various places of his body. Sean closed his eyes feeling relaxed for the first time all day.
“God am I sorry for ever keeping you from becoming a doctor so many years ago…”
“You’re my lover…you get special treatment,” Trevor insisted, as his lips lightly danced over his stitches.
“I can live with that…”
~*~*~*~*~
By the time the kids were all awake it was nearly brunch time. Everybody decided that they would stop at Mc Donald’s again for food. When they got inside the first thing out of the kids mouths were requests to go play and they were all turned down, Brian and Kevin insisting that they need to eat first.
“Mom, how about you go find a table with the kids?” Brian suggested as he kissed his mom on the cheek. He hasn’t been able to leave her side ever since they left the safety of their home. “You, the kids, and…” he glanced at security. Marcus was already standing dutifully next to Ashley at AJ’s pleads, Q at Kevin’s request stuck close to Elenore, and Laney was looking at the newspapers on the paper stand. “Q.” Q nodded.
“Mhm…come a long kiddies,” he instructed and he took Elenore’s hand and wrapped an arm around Jackie who Josh kept close to watchfully just like his father and they headed for a nearby table. Everybody followed in a single file line as if it were momma duck, daddy duck, and their little ducklings trailing behind. Howie had a hard time not laughing. Even Laila followed, her hand being held firmly by Ryan. Everybody but Dakota who stayed close to Nick one arm wrapped around his leg and a serious look upon her face. Nick looked down at his little girl with a slight frown as he noticed something was off.
“Baby?”
“Daddy I want’s you,” she insisted. Nick reached down and scooped Dakota up in his arms and he gazed into her eyes with concern in his own for a few seconds, before looking at Ashley questioningly. Dakota slid her arms around his neck and rested her head against his shoulder and Ashley rubbed her hand over her back.
“Thomas,” She mouthed to Nick though she didn’t look positive. Nick tightened his arms around his baby and kissed her forehead softly.
“What’s the matter Kota?”
“Nightmare,” she insisted. She had fallen asleep shortly after snacking on her cereal earlier.
“Daddy is here…you’re safe,” he reassured and he slowly swayed to the music playing in the fast food place as he stood in line behind everybody else to get food. As Ashley stood next to Nick rubbing her hand soothingly over Dakota’s back she glanced over at her brother suddenly curious as he was standing next to Kori and she heard him asking her how her ride was.
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